Gigabyte Z390 AORUS Pro WiFi: Is Midrange AORUS Right For Your Next Build?

3DMark

3DMark is a repeatable synthetic benchmark which can show a representation of expected gaming level performance for your system and you can compare with others using similar hardware to see how well your rig stacks up.

3DMark is a UL Benchmark and if you would like to try it out on your rig, you can pick it up here! 3DMark Download

3DMark Firestrike shows more of the same with each board trading blows and the MSI falling a bit behind in 4K physics score.

Time Spy being a DirectX 12 benchmark shows a different synthetic gaming scenario. Gigabyte and ASUS trade blows here as ASUS seems to own the CPU score category while the Gigabyte Z390 AORUS Pro WiFi takes home the graphics score in the standard Time spy and ASUS captures the extreme 4K version.

PCMark 10

PCMark 10 is a popular benchmark form UL and gives a great repeatable measure on multiple aspects of normal PC Usage. If you would like to check out PCMark on your system give it a try here! PCMark 10 Download

PCMark shows a flat line on Digital content creation while productivity is lead by MSI and Essentials taken by Gigabyte.

Review Overview

Gigabytes midrange take on Z390 is here! Today we have for you the Gigabyte Z390 AORUS Pro WiFi. Gigabyte has long made motherboards for consumers and also pushed the limits for the overclocking/XOC community with a staff of well adept overclockers at their disposal. Gigabyte has made arguably some of the most top-tier boards in both the mainstream and HEDT platforms of varying success and design over the years. Gigabyte has really stepped up their game on the recent chipset generation from what I've seen with some very overbuilt power circuits but carrying with that note some questionable product positioning…

Gigabyte Z390 AORUS Pro WiFi: Is Midrange AORUS Right For Your Next Build?

Gigabyte Z390 AORUS Pro WiFi: Is Midrange AORUS Right For Your Next Build?

2018-11-19

Shannon Robb

Gigabyte Z390 AORUS Pro WiFi

Value - 9.8

Performance - 9.5

Innovation - 9

Quality - 9

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9.3

Gigabyte comes into the sub $200 realm with guns blazing. Massive performance with a VRM to push it if you have the cooling to do so.